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  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

discounts and Amazon encouraged consumers to compare prices using smart phones, Best Buy was becoming a showroom for lower cost retail models. International expansion was struggling and domestic sales of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 22 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

can. The second area where Amazon may think it can help is on price transparency: Prices are often opaque in health care. Nobody really knows the price of anything. But it’s a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

of natural gas. With the price of oil doubling every 10 years between 1970 and the 2000s, the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) had enjoyed an era of increasing profitability. Another state-owned firm, Abu Dhabi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

inappropriate ads promoting the brand’s “finger licking good” behavior, many brands quickly turned off existing creative and searched for new brand stories to tell that better reflected the new cultural environment. Consumers largely... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2014 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

ANA (A)

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
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  • 05 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

"00," instead of 99 cents, and exclude the suggested retail price of a product on the tag in favor of just one marked-down price. "I think that on the consumer side this has simplified pricing, which makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details
Keywords: Algorithms; Marketplaces; Marketplace Matching; E-commerce; Demand and Consumers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Participation; Technology Adoption
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  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

$89.75, the leather-bound Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, represented a high-end consumer purchase. All 56 cameras brought to the Jordan Marsh demonstration sold out. After its Boston debut, the Land Camera appeared at department stores... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

gets punctured in a spectacular bust. Instead, market averages will not move very much, while value is consumed in the hedge funds as they speculate up and down, long and short, on the movement of prices in... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

    Arthur Schleifer

    Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
    • 06 Nov 2008
    • Op-Ed

    Selling Out The American Dream

    against inflated home prices and requiring minimal evidence of ability to repay from borrowers. Politicians on both sides have been equally culpable in defining the American Dream in material terms, in encouraging Americans to live beyond... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 11 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

    visit the nation and share their experiences with their followers, pushing authentic messages to key consumer groups, such as affluent parents. Establishing street CRED Switzerland, Germany, and Japan dominate brand rankings.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism